Michele Bellazzini

Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica, Italy

Michele Bellazzini was born in Santa Margherita Ligure, Italy, in 1966. He received the Astronomy degree (summa cum laude) and the Ph.D. degree from the Universita' degli Studi di Bologna, Bologna, Italy, in 1991 and 1996, respectively. Since 1997, he has been a Member of the staff of INAF-Osservatorio Astronomico di Bologna as Researcher Astronomer. He is mainly interested in resolved stellar populations, globular clusters, dwarf galaxies, galaxy formation, and cosmology from a local-universe perspective.